Nikolina Shtereva
| Medal record | ||
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| Women's athletics | ||
Representing  Bulgaria
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1976 Montreal | 800 m |
| European Indoor Championships | ||
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1976 Munich | 800 m |
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1979 Vienna | 800 m |
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1981 Grenoble | 800 m |
Nikolina Pavlova Shtereva (Bulgarian: Николина Павлова Щерева, born 21 January 1955) is a retired Bulgarian middle-distance runner who specialised in the 800 and 1500 metres. She is best known for her silver medal in 800 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and at the European Indoor Championships she won gold medals in 1976 and 1979 and a bronze medal in 1981. She won fourteen national titles (outdoor; as well as seven indoor) in Bulgaria, and is still the Bulgarian record holder in the 800 metres.
She was born in Sofia, and represented the clubs CSKA and Septemvrisko Zname during her career. In the 1970s and 1980s she was a prolific competitor at the European Indoor Championships. She finished sixth at the 1975 European Indoor Championships, clocking in only 2:20.3 seconds, but then won the gold medal at the 1976 European Indoor Championships. She edged out countrywoman Lilyana Tomova with 0.4 seconds, and Bulgaria almost managed a gold-silver-bronze constellation, but Ivanka Bonova lost the bronze medal to Gisela Klein. She won another gold medal at the 1979 European Indoor Championships, 0.3 seconds ahead of Anita Weiß, and finished sixth at the 1982 European Indoor Championships. She also won the 800 metres event at the 1979 IAAF World Cup.
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